DAOS PARTY
Saturday, December 5, 2026 · 5:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Row House, 2128 Frederick Douglass Blvd, Harlem, NYC
The official pre-party to DAOS CON. Martial arts, music and culture — live, in Harlem.
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Karate Tournament of Champions, Queens College Fitzgerald Gym, Flushing, Queens, NY. Traditional, Creative Extreme, Sync/Demo Teams, Point Fighting, 2 Person Tag Team, Open Weight and Open Rank. Sanctioned NASKA 3A / WKC. Promoters Rick Diaz & Susan Diaz. Promo code KTOC26.
Anthony Arango — Tournament Record
Head instructor, The Martial Arts Institute, Massapequa, NY. Nationally ranked with the Arango Warriors National Karate Team; USA Fighting Team; USA World W.A.K.O. Fighting Team member, silver medal, World Championships Italy; Black Belt Fighting Champion, Ocean State National Karate Tournament, Rhode Island; Fighting Black Belt Grand Champion, Island Wide Open Championship, Long Island, NY. Runs the Arango Karate Championship.
DAOS PARTY
Saturday, December 5, 2026 · 5:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Row House, 2128 Frederick Douglass Blvd, Harlem, NYC
DAOS CON
The DAOS Party is the official pre-party to DAOS CON.
KTOC Nationals — Karate Tournament of Champions
Sunday, November 22, 2026, Queens College Fitzgerald Gym, Flushing, Queens, NY. Divisions: Traditional, Creative Extreme, Sync/Demo Teams, Point Fighting, 2 Person Tag Team, Open Weight, Open Rank. Sanctioned NASKA 3A / WKC. Promoters Rick Diaz & Susan Diaz. Contact ktocnationals@gmail.com, 718-607-6665. Promo code KTOC26.
Anthony Arango — Tournament Record
- Head instructor, The Martial Arts Institute, Massapequa, NY
- Nationally ranked with the Arango Warriors National Karate Team
- USA Fighting Team (USA vs Puerto Rico, USA vs South Africa)
- USA World W.A.K.O. Fighting Team member, silver medal, World Championships Italy at age 48
- Black Belt Fighting Champion, Ocean State National Karate Tournament, Rhode Island (also at age 55)
- Fighting Black Belt Grand Champion, Island Wide Open Championship, Long Island, NY
- Runs the Arango Karate Championship
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Apply to be featuredI Play Rocky: The Fight Before the Fight
Long before the bell ever rang for Rocky Balboa, Sylvester Stallone was already in the fight of his life — and it was not in a ring. It was in a room full of studio executives who wanted his script and did not want him in it.
That is the story Peter Farrelly's I Play Rocky tells. A broke, unknown actor writes a script about a Philly club fighter, then refuses a fortune to hand it over unless he gets to play the lead himself. Anthony Ippolito — who taped his audition in his grandmother's basement after playing Al Pacino in The Offer — plays the young Stallone, alongside Stephan James as Carl Weathers and Matt Dillon as Stallone's father.
The film opens in select theaters November 6 and everywhere November 20, nearly 50 years after the original Rocky debuted. And the spirit is already in the gym: RDX's #MyFirstRound campaign, shared with DAOS by Karen Apablaza of Hudson West PR, is built around I Play Rocky-inspired gear for your first round.
Stallone did not win by knocking anybody out in that meeting. He won by refusing to move. That is the lesson.
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